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More than a year after the December 2013 mass attack against journalists at Kiev's Maidan Square, which coincided with the Ukrainian police's violent dispersal of protesters rallying against the policies of then-President Viktor Yanukovych, the press in the beleaguered nation continue the battle for survival. The biggest problem remains impunity in attacks against journalists.

"There are no [independent] Ukrainian journalists left in Donetsk," said Aleksei Matsuka, chief editor of the regional news website Novosti Donbassa (News of Donbass). "They have fled the region since pro-Russia separatists started targeting and kidnapping reporters," Matsuka told CPJ during our brief meeting in Kiev.

New
York, June 6, 2014--A local newsroom was burned down on Thursday in Donetsk
region in eastern Ukraine and a telecommunication company stopped broadcasting
content from six Ukrainian TV channels, citing threats, according to news reports and press freedom groups. In both cases,
separatists with the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) were believed
to be the perpetrators, the reports said.

New
York, April 23, 2014--Three local and international journalists are missing or being
held hostage in eastern Ukraine, while unidentified assailantsburned
down the offices of a newspaper. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on
Ukrainian authorities to ensure the safety of journalists covering the crisis.

A video report by a Euronews cameraman shows him being attacked by police during clashes in Kiev. (YouTube/Euronews)

New
York, December 2, 2013--At least 51 journalists were attacked while covering
protests in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and other cities over the weekend,
according to news reports and local journalists. The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the attacks and calls on Ukrainian authorities to ensure
that journalists are free to cover political developments.